Using A Catalyst Patents (Class 60/299)
  • Patent number: 11643959
    Abstract: A catalytic converter includes a catalyst substrate including a body having a length and defining a plurality of zones along the length, with each zone having at least one cross-sectional structure defining a plurality of cells forming an exhaust gas flow path through the length via cells of adjacent zones, and the cells being more densely arranged within the at least one cross-sectional structure of an upstream zone than an adjacent downstream zone. The catalytic converter also includes a wash-coat layer deposited on surfaces of the cells forming active surface area configured to react with exhaust gas traveling along the length. The exhaust gas flows along the exhaust gas flow path through the cells such that more active surface area is available for reaction in each upstream zone than an adjacent downstream zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Alexander Perkins, Robert D. Bedard
  • Patent number: 11643957
    Abstract: A control module for an aftertreatment system that includes a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalyst and an oxidation catalyst, comprises a controller configured to be operatively coupled to the aftertreatment system. The controller is configured to determine an actual SCR catalytic conversion efficiency of the SCR catalyst. The controller determines an estimated SCR catalytic conversion efficiency based on a test sulfur concentration selected by the controller. In response to the estimated SCR catalytic conversion efficiency being within a predefined range, the controller sets the test sulfur concentration as a determined sulfur concentration in a fuel provided to the engine. The controller generates a sulfur concentration signal indicating the determined sulfur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Cummins Emission Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Jinqian Gong, Durvesh Ramesh Pathak, Changsheng C. Su, Gautam Sharma, Yuanzhou Xi
  • Patent number: 11635008
    Abstract: A particle filter assembly for a motor vehicle includes a particle filter, an exhaust-gas-conducting line which opens into the particle filter, and a secondary air supply. The secondary air supply is formed separately from the exhaust-gas-conducting line and fresh air is suppliable to the particle filter via the secondary air supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jan Hillenbrand, Petar Kis, Claus Reulein, Martin Wetzel
  • Patent number: 11624309
    Abstract: An exhaust gas treatment system for an internal combustion engine includes an exhaust gas pathway configured to receive exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine, a first treatment element positioned within the exhaust gas pathway, the first treatment element including a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) element, a first injector configured to selectively introduce ammonia gas into the exhaust gas pathway upstream of the first treatment element, a second injector configured to introduce diesel exhaust fluid into the exhaust gas pathway downstream of the first treatment element, and a second treatment element positioned within the exhaust gas pathway downstream of the second injector, the second treatment element including a SCR element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Danan Dou, Eric J. Hruby, Shyan-Cherng Huang
  • Patent number: 11614015
    Abstract: Subject of the invention is an exhaust gas purification system for a gasoline engine, comprising in consecutive order the following devices: a first three-way-catalyst (TWC1), a gasoline particulate filter (GPF) and a second three-way-catalyst (TWC2), wherein the oxygen storage capacity (OSC) of the GPF is greater than the OSC of the TWC2, wherein the OSC is determined in mg/l of the volume of the device. The invention also relates to methods in which the system is used and uses of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: UMICORE AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Jan Schoenhaber, Joerg-Michael Richter, Carolin Braun
  • Patent number: 11608764
    Abstract: A dosing and mixing arrangement includes a mixing tube having a constant diameter along its length. At least a first portion of the mixing tube includes a plurality of apertures. The arrangement also includes a swirl structure for causing exhaust flow to swirl outside of the first portion of the mixing tube in one direction along a flow path that extends at least 270 degrees around a central axis of the mixing tube. The arrangement is configured such that the exhaust enters an interior of the mixing tube through the apertures as the exhaust swirls along the flow path. The exhaust entering the interior of the mixing tube through the apertures has a tangential component that causes the exhaust to swirl around the central axis within the interior of the mixing tube. The arrangement also includes a doser for dispensing a reactant into the interior of the mixing tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Korneel De Rudder, Corine Chauvin
  • Patent number: 11602717
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method of regenerating at least one filter medium comprising: providing at least one filter medium, wherein the at least one filter medium comprises: at least one catalyst material; and ammonium bisulfate (ABS) deposits, ammonium sulfate (AS) deposits, or any combination thereof; flowing a flue gas stream transverse to a cross-section of a filter medium, such that the flue gas stream passes through the cross section of the at least one filter medium, wherein the flue gas stream comprises: NOx compounds comprising: Nitric Oxide (NO), and Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2); and increasing an NOx removal efficiency of the at least one filter medium after removal of deposits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhuonan Song, Stephen Stark
  • Patent number: 11597371
    Abstract: A controller for a vehicle is configured to execute, when a state of charge of a battery is less than or equal to a threshold, a charging control to charge the battery with power that is generated by a motor generator using driving force of an internal combustion engine. The controller is also configured to obtain a temperature of the battery, set the threshold to a first threshold during a warm-up period, which is a period from a start of the internal combustion engine until the warm-up of the internal combustion engine is completed, set the threshold to a second threshold, which is greater than the first threshold, when the warm-up period ends, and set the second threshold to be greater when the temperature of the battery is a first temperature than when the temperature of the battery is a second temperature, which is higher than the first temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Iketomi, Yasutaka Tsuchida
  • Patent number: 11572821
    Abstract: A method for ascertaining a fill level of at least one exhaust-gas component, which can be stored in a catalytic converter and which is generated in a combustion process, in the catalytic converter, wherein a variation of the fill level of the at least one exhaust-gas component in the catalytic converter during the combustion process is determined, wherein, during time periods in which the combustion process is not operated, a diffusion-induced change of the fill level of the at least one exhaust-gas component in the catalytic converter is determined, and wherein, on the basis of the determined variation during the combustion process and the diffusion-induced change, a fill level of the at least one exhaust-gas component in the catalytic converter is ascertained. The invention furthermore relates to a processing unit and to a computer program for carrying out such a method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Michael Fey
  • Patent number: 11572815
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a turbocharger. In one example, a method may include bypassing exhaust gases flowing to the turbocharger in response to a catalyst temperature being less than a threshold temperature. The bypassing includes opening a bypass valve and adjusting a position of one or more turbine nozzle vanes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Martz, Paul Joseph Tennison, Michiel J. Van Nieuwstadt, Eric Matthew Kurtz
  • Patent number: 11573155
    Abstract: A method of using a burner-based exhaust replication system to generate exhaust that contains nitrogen dioxide (NO2). An example of such as system is a system used to test automotive exhaust aftertreatment devices. A fluid that decomposes to generate NO2 as one of its decomposition products is selected. The fluid is heated thereby generating NO2, with the amount and duration of heating is controlled to result in a desired decomposition extent of NO2 from the fluid. The fluid is then delivered to an exhaust stream of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Southwest Research Institute
    Inventors: Ryan Hartley, Robert T. Henderson, III, Cary Henry
  • Patent number: 11565981
    Abstract: An explosive, in particular a water-in-oil emulsion explosive, comprising a water-based explosive composition and a gas, wherein the gas is infused with two different ranges of sizes of nanobubbles, to provide controlled hotspots for detonation to improve emulsion stability and detonation sensitivity. Into the Nano Bubble tank (31) are fed the pressurised gas in water through valve (26) and also a sample is fed into the Nano Bubble tank (31). This then provides the NanoBubble Input NBIbp1 to be fed by NB Feed Pump (33) into static mixer (51). Also fed to the Static Mixer (51) by matrix pump (41) is the explosives containing PIBSA (Poly-Iso-Butylene Succinic Anhydride) in emulsion form as Emulsion Input EInp1 from Emulsion Matrix truck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: STT-SURFEX TECHNOLOGY & TRADING PTY LTD
    Inventor: Michael Cechanski
  • Patent number: 11566546
    Abstract: An exhaust muffler structure to which an exhaust pipe for guiding exhaust gas from an engine to an exhaust muffler is connected, the exhaust muffler structure comprising a catalyst device, included inside the exhaust muffler structure, having a catalyst for purifying the exhaust gas of the engine, wherein the catalyst device has one end connected to the exhaust pipe and is supported inside the exhaust muffler via the exhaust pipe, and a body portion of the catalyst device is supported by a first partition wall having an inner partition wall and an outer partition wall that is on the outer side of the inner partition wall, and the outer partition wall is fixed to the inner wall of the exhaust muffler, and the inner partition wall is fixed to the outer wall of the catalyst device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junji Higashiyama, Ryosuke Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 11566551
    Abstract: A controller 1 includes a calculation unit 10 that receives the current sensor value A1 of the vehicle and calculates an injection amount based on the current sensor value A1 and a target value of the ammonia adsorption amount of the selective reduction catalyst 105 so that the ammonia adsorption amount approaches the target value, and a prediction unit 20 that receives the current sensor value B1 and calculates a corrected target value by future prediction based on the current sensor value B1. The calculation unit 10 calculates the injection amount based on the corrected target value calculated by the prediction unit 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignees: Hino Motors, Ltd., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Munechika Tsutsumi, Hironori Narita, Hayato Nakada
  • Patent number: 11555435
    Abstract: The invention relates to a leakage treatment member (50) and an exhaust aftertreatment unit (40) configured to be sealingly arranged in a fluid passage (30) of an exhaust aftertreatment system for treating exhaust from an internal combustion engine, said exhaust aftertreatment unit (40) comprising an exhaust aftertreatment element (42) confined by an outer wall (44) of said exhaust aftertreatment unit, said leakage treatment member being configured to be arranged between:—an inner perimeter (32) of the fluid passage of the exhaust aftertreatment system, and—the outer wall of the exhaust aftertreatment unit, the leakage treatment member comprising an exhaust aftertreatment component for aftertreatment of any leakage of exhaust gases past said aftertreatment unit in said fluid passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Gert-Ove Wahlström
  • Patent number: 11555438
    Abstract: An exhaust device for guiding exhaust gas from an exhaust pipe in front of an engine to a muffler in a rear of the engine is provided. The exhaust device includes a catalyst case in which a catalyst configured to purify the exhaust gas that passes through the exhaust pipe is accommodated, and a chamber in which a muffling chamber configured to reduce an exhaust noise is formed downstream of the catalyst case. The catalyst case is disposed in a range from a front space with respect to the engine to a front part of a lower space of the engine. The chamber is disposed so as to occupy at least a rear part of the lower space of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tetsuo Muraoka
  • Patent number: 11549418
    Abstract: A computer-implemented system for monitoring the performance of an aftertreatment component in an exhaust system of a power generation system utilizes a remaining useful life (RUL) algorithm to predict its remaining operational life until it must be regenerated by a desulfation process. The RUL algorithm can utilize values such as a current sulfur accumulation value representing the quantity of sulfur currently accumulated in the aftertreatment component, a sulfur accumulation threshold representing the quantity sulfur the aftertreatment component can operationally retain, and an instantaneous sulfur accumulation rate of change representing the current rate at which the aftertreatment component retains sulfur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua L. Ratts, Julia H. Jenks
  • Patent number: 11536177
    Abstract: An exhaust gas system is provided for a transport refrigeration unit (TRU) engine. The exhaust gas system includes an exhaust system. The exhaust system includes a catalyst operable in a temperature range to catalyze exhaust gas produced in the TRU engine and flown through the exhaust system. The exhaust gas system further includes temperature sensors respectively disposed to sense exhaust gas temperatures upstream of and downstream from the catalyst, at least one of first, second and third valves which are proportionally controllable to moderate amounts of air provided to the TRU engine, fuel provided to the TRU engine and air provided to the catalyst, respectively, and a controller. The controller is configured to compare sensed exhaust gas temperatures with the temperature range and issue a proportional signal to the at least one of the first, second and third valves in accordance with results of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Loic Renault
  • Patent number: 11519316
    Abstract: An exhaust system includes a housing having an internal cavity defining an exhaust gas passage extending along an axis, at least one exhaust gas aftertreatment component positioned within the internal cavity, and an inlet cover mounted to the housing to provide an open internal area that is upstream of the internal cavity. The inlet cover has a contoured outer surface that includes an inlet opening and at least one sensor opening that is configured to receive an exhaust gas sensor. An inlet tube is mounted to the inlet cover at the inlet opening. A plate is positioned upstream of the at least one gas aftertreatment component and within the open internal area. The plate has a curved surface with a plurality of openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Faurecia Emissions Control Technologies, USA, LLC
    Inventors: Rick Buening, Mark Lambrecht, Ryan Market
  • Patent number: 11519318
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine emissions reduction system in which a emissions passing through a second catalyst element having a second catalyst function are mixed with emissions passing through a first catalyst element having a first catalyst function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Inventor: David A. Endrigo
  • Patent number: 11504705
    Abstract: A honeycomb body having a porous ceramic honeycomb structure with a first end, a second end, and a plurality of walls having wall surfaces defining a plurality of inner channels. A highly porous layer is disposed on one or more of the wall surfaces of the honeycomb body. The highly porous layer has a porosity greater than 90%, and has an average thickness of greater than or equal to 0.5 ?m and less than or equal to 10 ?m. A method of making a honeycomb body includes depositing a layer precursor on a ceramic honeycomb body and binding the layer precursor to the ceramic honeycomb body to form the highly porous layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Huiqing Wu, Xinfeng Xing
  • Patent number: 11506098
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a turbocharger. In one example, a method may include flowing bleed air to control a catalyst temperature. The bleed air is directed from a bleed port of a compressor of an engine system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Brian Martz, Liangjun Hu, Paul Joseph Tennison, Eric Matthew Kurtz, Gregory McConville
  • Patent number: 11498045
    Abstract: A catalyst device includes a heating element that generates heat when energized, a case that accommodates a catalyst support (heating element), an inflow pipe that draws exhaust gas into the case, and a connecting pipe that connects the inflow pipe and the case to each other. The case includes an end portion, which protrudes further in an upstream direction than an end face of the catalyst support. The inflow pipe is disposed inside the case. The catalyst device includes a triple-walled pipe structure, in which the connecting pipe overlaps with the end portion of the case and the inflow pipe in a covering manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toshinori Oki
  • Patent number: 11473494
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a turbocharger. In one example, a method may include bypassing exhaust gases flowing to the turbocharger in response to a catalyst temperature being less than a threshold temperature. The bypassing includes opening a bypass valve and adjusting a position of one or more turbine nozzle vanes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Brian Martz, Paul Joseph Tennison, Michiel J. Van Nieuwstadt
  • Patent number: 11441457
    Abstract: A two-stroke engine exhaust resonator with an exhaust gas catalytic converter comprising an inlet opening, wherein the inlet opening is followed by the first end of a stabilizing tube with a catalytic converter mounted thereon, characterized in that the other end of the stabilizing tube is directed towards the primary reflective surface, the primary reflective surface is followed by the first end of a resonator casing, which is surrounding the stabilizing tube, wherein the resonator casing exceeds at least over a part of the catalytic converter on the stabilizing tube, wherein a resonator outlet opening is arranged in the resonator casing between its first and second end or in the primary reflective surface, and at least a part of the resonator casing surrounding the stabilizing tube is surrounded by a cooler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Inventor: Martin Sula
  • Patent number: 11415315
    Abstract: A two-stage combustor having as constituent parts: a partial oxidation reactor, which catalytically converts a hydrocarbon fuel and a first supply of oxidant into a gaseous partial oxidation product; and a deep oxidation reactor having a premixer plenum fluidly connected to a porous heat spreader, which converts the gaseous partial oxidation product to deep oxidation products. In one embodiment, the premixer plenum provides an empty space wherein combustion occurs in flame mode. In a second embodiment, the premixer plenum contains a high pore density foam matrix, absent catalyst, which facilitates holding a flameless combustion downstream within the porous heat spreader. In both embodiments heat produced during combustion is transmitted from the heat spreader to an associated heat acceptor, such as a heater head of a Stirling engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: PRECISION COMBUSTION, INC.
    Inventors: Subir Roychoudhury, Richard Mastanduno, Bruce Crowder, Francesco Macri
  • Patent number: 11401851
    Abstract: The vehicular exhaust system presents a plurality of flow paths that transport exhaust gases between one or more catalytic converters and a muffler. The span of the length of each of the plurality of flow paths varies such that phase differences in the sound waves carried by the exhaust gas are generated. These phase differences cause the sound waves to cancel thereby reducing combustion engine sounds before the exhaust enters the muffler. The vehicular exhaust system comprises a plurality of pipes, a plurality of connectors, and a plurality of cants. The plurality of connectors form fluidic connections between the plurality of pipes to form a manifold that creates the plurality of flow paths. The plurality of cants are angles formed within the manifold structure that change the span of length of each of the plurality of flow paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Inventor: Tilahun Anshu
  • Patent number: 11391191
    Abstract: A reductant injecting device includes: a honeycomb structure comprising: a pillar shaped honeycomb structure portion having a partition wall that defines a plurality of cells each extending from a fluid inflow end face to a fluid outflow end face; and at least one pair of electrode portions arranged on a side surface of the honeycomb structure portion; an outer cylinder being configured to house the honeycomb structure, the outer cylinder having a carrier gas introduction port on the fluid inflow end face side; a urea sprayer arranged at one end of the outer cylinder; a carrier gas introduction cylinder provided at the carrier gas introduction port of the outer cylinder; and a carrier gas flow rate amplifier provided in the carrier gas introduction cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsumi Saiki, Yukinari Shibagaki
  • Patent number: 11358095
    Abstract: An electrochemical reactor is arranged inside an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine and is provided with a plurality of groups of cells. Each group of cell has a plurality of cells, each cell has an ion conducting solid electrolyte layer, and an anode layer and cathode layer arranged on a surface of the solid electrolyte layer. Each group of cells is configured so that all of the exhaust gas flows into passages defined by cells configuring the group of cells and so that both of the anode layers and the cathode layers are exposed to each passage. The plurality of groups of cells are arranged aligned in a direction of flow of exhaust gas and different groups of cells are connected to a power source in parallel with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keishi Takada, Tetsuya Sakuma, Yasumasa Notake
  • Patent number: 11325067
    Abstract: An electrochemical reactor is arranged inside an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine and is provided with a plurality of groups of cells. Each group of cell has a plurality of cells, each cell has an ion conducting solid electrolyte layer, and an anode layer and cathode layer arranged on a surface of the solid electrolyte layer. Each group of cells is configured so that all of the exhaust gas flows into passages defined by cells configuring the group of cells and so that both of the anode layers and the cathode layers are exposed to each passage. The plurality of groups of cells are arranged aligned in a direction of flow of exhaust gas and different groups of cells are connected to a power source in parallel with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keishi Takada, Tetsuya Sakuma, Yasumasa Notake
  • Patent number: 11273404
    Abstract: A porous composite includes a porous base material and a porous collection layer formed on the base material. The collection layer has a thickness greater than or equal to 6 ?m. The collection layer has a plurality of large pores, each exposing the surface of the base material. A sum of areas of exposed regions of the base material that are each exposed from each large pore of the plurality of large pores is greater than or equal to 1% of the total area of the collection layer and less than or equal to 30% thereof. This allows the porous composite to achieve a favorable efficiency of collecting particulate matter and to increase the accessible area between the particulate matter and the collection layer and thereby accelerate oxidation of the particulate matter collected by the porous composite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shogo Takeno, Kousuke Ujihara, Yunie Izumi
  • Patent number: 11230977
    Abstract: Method for optimizing the limitation of dust emissions from a gas turbine or combustion plant comprising a line for supplying liquid fuel oil, a line for generating fuel oil atomizing air, and a central controller, wherein: a first definition step, starting from a nominal temperature of the fuel oil and a nominal pressure ratio of the atomizing air of the fuel oil, and by controlling the injection of the soot inhibitor, of a nominal operating point corresponding to the maximum permissible level of emitted dust; a second step of controlling a first parameter, taken from the group of the fuel oil temperature and the pressure ratio of the fuel oil atomizing air, in order to reach another operating point; and a third step of controlling the soot inhibitor injection to achieve the maximum permissible level of emitted dust.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Matthieu Vierling, Pierre Montagne, Sven Catrin, Ezio Pena Saavedra, Mohamad-Maher Aboujaib
  • Patent number: 11208940
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing a muffler for an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine, provides a manufactured muffler with a muffler housing with a housing jacket (14) that is elongated in a direction of a housing longitudinal axis and with at least one housing bottom (26) carried on the housing jacket (14). The process includes the steps of providing the housing jacket (14) with a stop formation (50) in association with at least one housing bottom (26) to be carried on the housing jacket (14), providing the at least one housing bottom (26) to be carried on the housing jacket (14), and positioning the at least one housing bottom (26) on the housing jacket (14) such that the housing bottom (26) is in contact with the stop formation (50) associated with the housing bottom (26).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Purem GmbH
    Inventors: Carsten Bäumchen, Fritz Strobl
  • Patent number: 11181030
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an on-board diagnostic (OBD) limit part and a method of testing to evaluate an OBD system. The method of manufacturing the OBD limit part includes introducing a contaminant to an selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalyst and contacting the contaminant with the SCR catalyst for a selected period of time. The method of manufacturing utilizes a vessel, the contaminant, and the SCR catalyst. The OBD limit part is a combination of the contaminant and the SCR catalyst within the vessel. The method of testing to evaluate the OBD system includes collecting data related to an exhaust gas before and after the exhaust gas is exposed to the OBD limit part, collecting an indication provided by the OBD system, and comparing the data related to the exhaust gas and the indication provided by the OBD system. The method of testing to evaluate the OBD system utilizes a system that includes an exhaust gas source, a first and a second fluid path, the OBD limit part, and the OBD system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: PACCAR Inc
    Inventors: Varun Ramesh, Isaac Stark
  • Patent number: 11156168
    Abstract: A gas turbine plant is provided with a gas turbine, a heating device, a decomposition gas line, and a decomposition gas compressor. The heating device heats ammonia and thermally decomposes the ammonia to convert the ammonia into decomposition gas including hydrogen gas and nitrogen gas. The decomposition gas line sends the decomposition gas PG from the heating device to the gas turbine. The decomposition gas compressor increases the pressure of the decomposition gas to a pressure equal to or higher than a feed pressure at which the decomposition gas is allowed to be fed to the gas turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Masakazu Nose, Hideyuki Uechi, Satoshi Tanimura
  • Patent number: 11156142
    Abstract: An exhaust system for an internal combustion engine includes an oxidation catalytic converter unit (12) with a first catalytic converter housing with a first housing axis (A1). An SCR catalytic converter unit (18) has a second catalytic converter housing (20), with a second housing axis (A2). A mixer housing (16) has an upstream connection area (24) adjoining a downstream end (26) of the first catalytic converter housing (14) and has a downstream connection area (28) adjoining an upstream end (30) of the second catalytic converter housing. A mixer (48) is carried in the mixer housing. A reactant release device (56) at the mixer housing releases reactant into a reactant-receiving duct (72) of the mixer. The mixer housing includes a first housing part (36) forming the upstream connection area (24) and a second housing part (38) forming the downstream connection area together with the first housing part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Purem GmbH
    Inventors: Enver Kurpejovic, Marc Palinkas, Thomas Wolf, Krishna Siva Prasad Reddy Yenugula, Ruben Hass
  • Patent number: 11136912
    Abstract: A method for operating an exhaust gas purification apparatus (10) of a vehicle includes monitoring close-coupled lambda value (Ln) of a close-coupled catalytic converter apparatus (20), operating the close-coupled catalytic converter apparatus (20) with an excess of fuel, monitoring a non-close-coupled lambda value (Lf) of a non-close-coupled catalytic converter apparatus (30), and operating the non-close-coupled catalytic converter apparatus (30) in a stoichiometric method of operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Inventors: Frank Schuerg, Sebastian Hemminger
  • Patent number: 10920693
    Abstract: A cylinder deactivation change apparatus including fuel supply parts supplying fuel into a first and second combustion chambers of a first and second cylinders, ignition parts igniting fuel-air mixture in the first and the second combustion chambers and a microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform determining whether changing the operation mode is necessary, and controlling the fuel supply parts and ignition parts so as to ignite at first ignition timing before it is determined that changing the operation mode to the first mode is necessary, and so as to ignite at second ignition timing retarded in comparison with the first ignition timing and so as to supply the fuel into the first combustion chamber in a manner that causes a stratified charge combustion in the first combustion chamber, when it is determined that changing the operation mode to the first mode is necessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichi Masukake, Daisuke Shiomi, Chiho Chinda
  • Patent number: 10683791
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purification system has a first exhaust gas purification element, a second exhaust gas purification element, a first exhaust gas part flow duct, and a second exhaust gas part flow duct. The second exhaust gas purification element is arranged geometrically after the first exhaust gas purification element. The first exhaust gas part flow duct has a first exhaust gas passage area and the second exhaust gas part flow duct has a second exhaust gas passage area. The exhaust gas passage areas are aligned parallel to a projection plane and the first and second exhaust gas part flow ducts are arranged geometrically one after another. The two exhaust gas part flow ducts are arranged such that a partial flow channel axis that is orthogonal to the projection plane passes through the first and second exhaust gas passage areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Markus Pruss
  • Patent number: 10662851
    Abstract: A pipe mixer for an aftertreatment system is described for mixing of a reductant and exhaust gas. The pipe mixer comprises a hollow body having a first end and a second end, the body surrounding a mixing channel; an injector mount positioned at the first end of the body; perforations provided on the body for entry of exhaust flow into the mixing channel; directional elements positioned on the body for directing exhaust flow towards the injector mount, the directional elements being positioned between the first end and the perforations wherein each directional element comprises an inlet formed on the body for entry of exhaust flow and a guide provided on an internal surface of the body, the guide having an outlet for exit of exhaust flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Perkins Engines Company Limited
    Inventors: Srikanth Tummala, Xiao Cang
  • Patent number: 10662853
    Abstract: An engine exhaust device includes: a first catalyst; a second catalyst; and a connecting member shaped into a tube and forming a part of the exhaust path, and connecting the first catalyst to the second catalyst. A downstream end surface of the first catalyst and an upstream end surface of the second catalyst form a dihedral angle within a range from 60 degrees to 120 degrees. A part of the upstream end surface of the second catalyst is close to and faces a part of a side surface of the first catalyst. On a cross-section including a central axis of the first catalyst and being parallel to a central axis of a second catalyst, a length of the part of the side surface of the first catalyst is longer than or equal to 10% and shorter than 50% of an entire length of the first catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taku Kuramashi, Keishi Kitabatake, Tamotsu Takamure, Toshiaki Kamo
  • Patent number: 10619538
    Abstract: An engine exhaust device includes an exhaust pipe attached to a vehicle engine and a silencer connected to a downstream side of the exhaust pipe; the silencer includes a first partition wall which partitions an internal space of the silencer into at least two spaces in a first direction and a second partition wall which partitions one of the at least two spaces into two spaces in a second direction that crosses the first direction; another one of the at least two spaces is larger in capacity than each of the two spaces defined by the second partition wall; and a downstream end of the exhaust pipe is open in the another one of the at least two spaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akio Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10612442
    Abstract: An exhaust gas treatment device includes an exhaust gas guide element which has an exhaust gas conduit. A first flow separation element is disposed in the exhaust gas conduit that divides the exhaust gas conduit into a first partial conduit and a second partial conduit. The first flow separation element has a first conduit area. A second flow separation element is disposed in the second partial conduit. The second flow separation element divides the second partial conduit into a first sub-conduit, a second sub-conduit, and a third sub-conduit. The second flow separation element has a second conduit area which is cylindrical or expands in a flow direction. The first conduit area of the first flow separation element expands along an injection direction of a reductant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Thomas Boldt, Johannes Gerhard, Thomas Hermann, Michael Hochholzner, Sinisa Kontin, Tilmann Oestreich, Andreas Petry, Emmanuel Routier, Benedikt Stute
  • Patent number: 10563559
    Abstract: An exhaust gas aftertreatment system with an exhaust gas inlet, at least two exhaust gas aftertreatment elements, and a flow chamber. The exhaust gas inlet, the at least two exhaust gas aftertreatment elements, and the flow chamber are arranged relative to one another and fluidically connected together such that exhaust gas flowing through the exhaust gas inlet into the flow chamber can be distributed to the at least two exhaust gas aftertreatment elements. The exhaust gas passes through at least one first of the at least two exhaust gas aftertreatment elements along a first flow direction, and the exhaust gas passes through at least one second of the at least two exhaust gas aftertreatment elements along a second flow direction, wherein the first flow direction and the second flow direction are oriented at least diagonally to each other, preferably anti-parallel to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: MTU FRIEDRICHSHAFEN GMBH
    Inventors: Mathias Bauknecht, Michael Engelhardt, Boban Maletic, Samuel Vogel
  • Patent number: 10557398
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an exhaust pipe structure for an internal combustion engine in which a tubular exhaust purifying catalyst device including an exhaust purifying catalyst is disposed in a vicinity of the internal combustion engine within an engine room. The exhaust pipe structure comprises an exhaust pipe main part which curves from a side of the internal combustion engine and extends towards an end of the exhaust purifying catalyst device in a center axis line direction of the exhaust purifying catalyst device and an exhaust pipe introduction part that connects the exhaust pipe main part and the end of the exhaust purifying catalyst device, and introduces exhaust gas from the exhaust pipe main part into the exhaust purifying catalyst device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kentarou Hikichi
  • Patent number: 10465581
    Abstract: A spray device 40 sprays a liquid oxidation catalyst 41 into an interior of an upstream small-diameter pipe 32 which is disposed upstream of an oxidation catalyst 25, so that the liquid oxidation catalyst 41 is supplied to particulate matters which have accumulated on an upstream end face 31 of the oxidation catalyst 25 and a diametrically expanded pipe 33 which is disposed upstream of the upstream end face 31 to thereby oxidize and remove the accumulated particulate matters by a catalytic action of the supplied liquid oxidation catalyst 41, whereby it becomes possible to remove the particulate matters which have accumulated on the upper end face 31 of the oxidation catalyst 25 which is disposed in an exhaust passageway and a portion of the exhaust passageway which is situated upstream of the upstream end face 31.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED
    Inventors: Daiji Nagaoka, Masashi Gabe
  • Patent number: 10363937
    Abstract: A control device for a vehicle includes a failure detector to detect failure in a cooling device to cool an internal combustion engine of the vehicle. An acceleration operation sensor is to detect an acceleration operation amount indicating a target acceleration. Circuitry is configured to control a power output from the internal combustion engine in accordance with the acceleration operation amount, control an air fuel ratio of air-fuel mixture in the internal combustion engine to be in a richer side with respect to a predetermined air fuel ratio if the acceleration operation amount exceeds a high load threshold, limit the power output from the internal combustion engine if the failure detector detects the failure, and prohibit the air fuel ratio from being controlled to be in the richer side even if the acceleration operation amount exceeds the high load threshold if the failure detector detects the failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Taku Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 10364764
    Abstract: Systems and methods for a turbocharged engine comprising an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) valve and an EGR valve differential pressure sensor disposed in a low pressure EGR (LPEGR) system of the engine and a differential pressure (dP) valve that is distinct from a throttle valve and a dP valve outlet pressure sensor disposed in an induction system of the engine utilize a controller configured to, based on the sensed pressures, determine (i) a modeled pressure at the EGR pickup, (ii) a modeled pressure at outlet of an EGR cooler, (iii) a modeled pressure at an outlet of an air filter and (iv) a modeled pressure at the dP valve outlet, and control the dP valve and the EGR valve based on the modeled EGR pickup pressure, the modeled EGR cooler outlet pressure, the modeled air filter outlet pressure, and the modeled dP valve outlet pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: FCA US LLC
    Inventors: Shu Wang, Ethan Bayer, William P Attard
  • Patent number: 10280825
    Abstract: A multi-cylinder engine exhaust structure disclosed herein includes: four branched exhaust pipes respectively communicating with four cylinders classified into two groups, each being comprised of two of the four cylinders with discontinuous exhaust strokes; two intermediate collecting pipes, each being formed by combining associated two of the four branched exhaust pipes respectively communicating with the two cylinders in an associated one of the two groups; a last collecting pipe formed by combining these intermediate collecting pipes; and an exhaust gas purifier coupled to an exhaust gas downstream end of the last collecting pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taku Kuramashi, Ryota Joya, Tomonori Nishida
  • Patent number: 10267206
    Abstract: In inline four cylinder internal combustion engine (1), exhaust ports for a #2 cylinder and a #3 cylinder merge inside cylinder head (3) and form an opening serving as a single collective exhaust port. Exhaust manifold (5) has individual exhaust pipes (6, 7) for #1 and #4 cylinders and collective exhaust pipe (8), and the leading ends of these three exhaust pipes (6, 7, 8) are connected to catalytic converter (11). Exhaust gas introduction angle (?2) of each of individual exhaust pipes (6, 7) is larger by 30-60 degrees than exhaust gas introduction angle (?1) of collective exhaust pipe (8). Consequently, flow velocity distribution and temperature distribution in a catalyst carrier become uniform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Hamamoto, Takanobu Sugiyama, Hidehiro Fujita